To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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